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Kangerlussuaq Hotel and Conference Centre Greenland The Past as an American Base |
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The American soldiers have now left Kangerlussuaq, but the base remains. It has been transformed by the Greenland Airports Authority into a modern training and conference centre. Not five-star luxury, but an efficient hotel in which the fragrance of military webbing lingers on and the tramp of general issue boots still echoes around the corner.
The interior can be best described as genuine American 1960s functionalism. The bathrooms and toilets have been fully modernised, though there are still a few rooms that have yet to be equipped with en suite facilities. But when you're speeding across the ice in 15 degrees of frost on a husky sledge, or fishing in the fjord on a hot summer's day, you will discover that there is much more to life than hotel furnishings . |
P.O. Box 1006 DK-3910 Kangerlussuaq Greenland Tel.: 002 99 11 300 Fax: 002 99 11 440 kangerlussuaq.airport@greennet.gl |